Mashup Madness

Mashup Madness

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IBM has announced a mashup integration that fits Cognos Business Intelligence with a new version of the company's Mashup Center . The two services fit together to create an environment that leverages IBM's existing technology base with a service that's right out of a play book for social computing. It's a small move for IBM but demonstrates that the company is thinking strategically about how to leverage its strengths in business intelligence and analytics. At the same time it shows how IBM is adopting new ways for users to communicate more effectively with multiples sources of information. Sponsor IBM is leveraging it Cognos Business ... Read Full Story
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This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009 , PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student. The API (Application Programming Interface) has been an essential component for creating applications that hook into or utilize web apps such as Twitter and Facebook. With it, developers have been able to create some amazing mashups and tools. Some of the most helpful and oft-used applications on the web wouldn’t be possible without APIs. And that makes sense. Why would any developer want to reinvent the wheel when they could just utilize ... Read Full Story
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This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009 , PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Get 50% off if you register with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student. We here at Mashable are big fans of mashup services — it’s our name, after all! And at the heart of almost all of these mashups is a term you’ll see frequently thrown around related to web services: APIs, or application programming interfaces. In this feature we’ll celebrate some of the great mashups we know and love that were made possible by the existence of APIs. We know there ... Read Full Story
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Last.fm besides being one of the most popular online radio and music communities, also has one of the most popular online music APIs. Possibly the most popular. Each month we continue to see a variety of new music-themed mashups added to our directory built on the Last.fm API . In the first three weeks of this month alone there have been 5 more Last.fm mashups added. That means that out of 231 music mashups at least 84 use the Last.fm API . And not that developers don’t have other options given that there are 44 music APIs to choose from. What’s new? Here’s a ... Read Full Story
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What do you get when you combine 36 different APIs into 28 different applications? You get this week’s additions to our mashup directory . Some of the less frequently seen APIs include Freebase , Capitol Words , MTV , as well as DigitalBucket . Which API was used most? It was the Twitter API , used in 10 mashups this week. And in yet another example of one API being built on top of another API is the TwitPic API , a Twitter-based service, used in this week’s twipick entry . The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:   Amazon ... Read Full Story
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Do you want to use the power of open APIs and mashups to help make the US Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent? If so, then you’ll want to enter the new Apps for America Mashup Contest from the good folks at the Sunlight Foundation . Like last year’s Mashup Congress contest , this is another notable competition from Sunlight, whose nonprofit mission is to help organizations use Internet technologies to make information about Congress and the federal government more accessible to the American people to create a “catalyst for greater political transparency and to foster more openness and accountability in government.” How to ... Read Full Story
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Telephony and voice APIs are one of the most active segments of the API and mashup world (our directory has 42 telephony-related APIs ). For example, in the past week, two of the latest mashups in the directory use telephony APIs in innovative ways: Broadsoft Xtended Chumby Widget : Allows you to use the BroadSoft Xtended API and your Chumby to view your call history, click to return missed, placed or received calls, and to set Do Not Disturb using the BroadSoft web services. More at our BroadSoft + Chumby mashup profile . voicetag : Leave or broadcast voice messages to your Facebook friends ... Read Full Story
This Denodo white paper features customer case studies to demonstrate how to get integrated and real-time views (mashups) of your critical business information from across a broad spectrum of disparate enterprise data (structured, Web 2.0 and unstructured) both within and outside your enterprise with Denodo’s Enterprise Data Mashup technology. Denodo’s Data Mashup product, Denodo platform, allows organizations to combine and query data sources...  
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Last year Google got cozy with the MTA with the launch of transit directions inside of Google Maps. Today the Google Maps team has announced the launch of a new layer on Google Maps that displays all of the NYC subway routes directly on the map. There have been many mashups that created something similar [...]  
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Skype Journal wrote about one of the coolest mashups I've ever seen. Certainly one of the coolest VoIP mashups. Skype Journal explains PhoneFromHere Tim Panton's demo that he gave at Astricon where Tim mashes up Google Wave, Skype, Asterisk running Skype for Asterisk and Ibook to make Skype calls from within a browser-based Google Wave. Not only is it sans Skype client, but it has recordings (labeled by person speaking) of individual...  
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In this article Wayne Hodgins explores the emerging area of web mashups and how they can be used for learning and teaching in new and innovative ways. He gives many examples of use and then goes on to argue that the true power of mashups is in seeing them as a wider concept that can bring elements of customisation and personalisation to any number of different areas. This development of mass customisation and unique solutions tailored to the...  
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ProgrammableWeb.com keeps you up to date with web mashups and APIs: what's new, interesting, useful and important. Hundreds of mashups and APIs. Contribute, search, view, and chart them.  
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If websites like Hipster Runoff have taught us anything, it's that when the alt community comes together for a "meaningful" experience, it can be a beautiful thing. It seemed like all of hipsterdom, both local and foreign, was at one of two related places Halloween night: OHWOW, or Our House West of...  
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The message board b3ta.com has a great post where they challenge their readers to create movie poster mashups. My favorites include the Yellow Submarine/Das Boot (pictured above) and this Peter Pan/Pulp Fiction mashup. Tinkerbell is a bad girl! photo courtesy of b3ta.comMovie Poster Mashups originally appeared on About.com Web Humor on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 16:30:48.Permalink | Comment | Email this  
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